On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:55:49AM +0200, Mozzi wrote:
Hi all
On one of my hosts I run amanda for backups
when I run amcheck it tells me
---
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:48:32AM +0200, Amon Ott wrote:
The tar wrapper script seems to work fine now, thank you.
However, there is some strange Amanda 2.4.3b4 behaviour in amrecover: If you
try to restore with an Amanda compilation (e.g. on another system), which had
another
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:55:36AM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
Just to followup - it turns out that the package installed all the
setuid programs as user bin (solaris 2.6 package from sunfreeware.com -
one I recommended to someone on the list!).
(thanks to Jon LaBadie for point out
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 07:44:31AM -0500, Neil wrote:
Good day guys,
What is amanda's approach to backup commercial software like Microsoft
Exchange 5.5 mail server? It's because in Exchange, they have this public
store and private store files. Commercial backup such as BackupExec can
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 01:57:03PM +, Niels Hansen wrote:
Hello there
Does anyone know what the tapetype definition should be for a Ultrium 1
tape drive, called HP surestore ultrium 215 tape drive, on the
SPARCstation-5. The SPARCstation is running SunOS 5.6 and amanda backup
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:38:55PM +1000, Gordon Cormack wrote:
Hi Peoples,
I'm trying to dump from an Amanda tape onto the hard-drive by not using
Amanda. This is probably a you don't know how to use tar properly question
but:
#mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status
Vendor 'SONY'
I've never installed and used amanda from a pre-built package.
Thus I'm not familiar with the needs and problems creating and
using such a package entail.
Sun Freeware is a quasi official and supported Sun site for
distributing compiled freeware for solaris. Current their list
includes a
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:26:36PM -0400, James Shearer wrote:
I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't
in my disklist, or from a host that isn't the backup server.
Try using the sethost, setdisk, and setdate commands in amrecover.
Yep. I've tried
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Roman Fietze wrote:
Hello,
Using amanda-2.4.2p2 I got an error from the planner telling me
planner: FATAL error [planner askfor: lev out of range -1..10: 10]
- the maximum dump level is 9, so the message should be
... lev out of range
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:11:30PM +0200, Einar Matveinen wrote:
¡Hi!, I'm a sysadm using amanda for a year ago. I'm very pleased with this
software, i've a question for you:
I'm using compression with GNU-tar (the best algorythm) and i want to reduce
the compression algorythm to fast.
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:32:08PM +0900, jiang lei wrote:
Hi all,
Can anybody give me some help on index server?
I installed amanda on a Solaris 8 x86 server and it's driving me nuts.
Both amcheck and amdump are running fine. However, no index file is
written.
Solaris and release 2.4.2.
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:56:17PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
I have an alternative suggestion for you.
I've got two different conf's, one for my regular weekly rotational
stuff,
and one called Archives for my permanent archives.
Whenever I want to make a permanent backup of my systems, I
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 10:04, Toralf Lund wrote:
I've never been quite able to figure out what value to use for
tapecycle.
I expect to run backups on first 4 days of week, so I've set
runspercycle 4
Tapes are
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:06:06AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
Well, no matter what I do, I need *some* way to label new tapes without
too many '-f's etc. Also, I know some people are using separate configs
for permanent
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:20:44PM -0500, Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
tapes in my library are not full is not a useful thing to say about
amanda; amanda over-writes each tape, *never* appends.
This message was from a previous message sent by Jay.
I understand that amanda
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:35:07PM -0500, Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am at a total lose as to where you are in understanding tape usage.
Let me try a few statements and see where they lead you.
A single tape will never hold more than one amdump run at a time.
(I'm
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:00:22PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
--On Wednesday, October 09, 2002 16:53:55 +0200 Toralf Lund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... . You can take certain tapes out the sequence for permanent
archiving by the command amadmin yourconfig no-reuse thetapelabel.
What
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
- As was mentioned earlier, your tapes won't stay synchronized to the
calendar. If Monday is a holiday and the tape doesn't get switched,
amanda will ask for the Monday
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:51:19PM -0700, Jerry wrote:
Has anyone seen this before.
I keep getting end of tape errors... but to make it
worse, I've seemily ruined 3 tapes now trying to
amflush my data.
Based on your later postings on this topic,
you seem to have hardware problems.
When
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:20:53PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
How often does amanda upgrade in ways that break your existing config?
(Never, to my knowledge.)
Just an FYI,
If I recall correctly in 2.3 - 2.4 transition broke things.
Or was it 2.2 to 2.3?
Anyway, it was done only with much
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:18:06PM -0700, John Koenig wrote:
Related question
Are there some guidelines one can use to modify parameters in
amanda.conf such that the behavior of AMANDA changes enough to use
one tape per run instead of one tape 70% of the time?
Or should I post a
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:15:34AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
Forgot to mention this earlier: I'm not using incrementals at all.
Tapes
from the same week will contain full backups of different directories,
and
a given file is
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:26:58AM -0500, pointer wrote:
I've checked the docs/FAQ/google/archives and I must be missing
something really simple. :\
I have an amanda client that I'm backing having problems backing up.
We're using tar for /usr on this client:
SNIP
/--
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:20:18AM +0200, jordivi wrote:
Hi
My backups fails using soft compression on large disks, using
tar or dump + gzip I get things like:
---
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
server1
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:14:37AM -0700, Jerry wrote:
Failed on 4.3.3 with:
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:76: warning: empty
declaration
alloc.c: In function `debug_caller_loc':
alloc.c:79: warning: assignment makes pointer from
integer without a cast
alloc.c: In function `safe_env':
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:33:25PM -0700, Jerry wrote:
in sgen.conf uncomment the changer line, remove the
(type 08) or whatever is in ( ), uncomment all the lun
lines, modload sgen, devfsadm -i sgen and look in
/dev/scsi/changer I think... I just went through this,
let me know if it doesn't
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:27:56AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:56:07AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
...
In my disklist I have entries /w/a, /w/c, and /w/e using my normal tar
dumptype and and exclude list file that excludes ./tmp, ./dumps, ...
I also have a disklist
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:53:08AM -0400, Chad Morland wrote:
I find that very strange considering that tar, dump and several
other
backup utilities support this. Amanda developers don't want to add
this
Err, *can* dump/tar span a single *file* across tapes? I'm not sure.
A
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:01:06PM -0500, Zhen Liu wrote:
Hi,
Haven't got a solution for this issue...help...!!!
Any feedback would be really appreciated!!!
When you don't get a response from a group as helpful as this one
it generally means no one had anything to contribute. In that
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:45:50AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 12 October 2002 05:08, Thomas Hepper wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:25:36PM -0400, Yura Pismerov wrote:
I've noticed chg-scsi unloads ejected tape in the first
available slot (no matter what
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:30:30AM +0200, Sören Lannermo wrote:
Hi!
Anyone who knows what this means:
[amanda@lex amanda]$ amoverview DailySet
bad date .AppleDouble: in .AppleDouble: skipping cruft directory, perhaps
you should delete it.
bad date .Trashes: in .Trashes: skipping
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:44:43PM +0200, JC Simonetti wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:26:40 -0400
Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:30:30AM +0200, Sören Lannermo wrote:
Anyone who knows what this means:
[amanda@lex amanda]$ amoverview DailySet
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:42:13PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Hello Eric,
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:59:14PM +0200, Brunet Eric wrote:
I tested with a wildcard file path and all worked fine; my idea was to
simulate hash dirs with the exclude option:
./[b-zB-Z]* - exclude which
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:06:54PM +0800, Huiqun wrote:
Hi all:
Recently I setup amanda 2.4.p2 on our Solaris system, it seems working fine.
I'm using a HP DDS2 tape which has a 4GB capacity, I got the following
tapetype value from this mailing list:
define tapetype HP-DDS2 {
comment
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:58:53PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
Hi,
Someone responded to me off-list suggesting I look at etimeout. I increased
it from 300 to 600 and the problem did disappear, on rereading the FAQ it
seems so obvious now :-(
Is there a way to determine exactly how long
Partially commenting to others replies too.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:02:15PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
Hi all!
We have a database server that is backed up daily using Amanda
to a dedicated tape drive.
Sun E3500
Sun E1000 RAID, ~170 GB of storage
LTO tape connected to LVD
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:41:57PM +1100, Craig Dewick wrote:
Hey there Joseph!
It's good to see a familiar name here on the list...
I would like to know where and what do I insert into the amanda.conf for
allow tape compression to work.
the tape unit is a hp1537A in a six stacker
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:58:33AM +0100, Helas, Stephan wrote:
Hello,
I use redhat7 with amanda 2.4.2p2 rpm.
I tryed to backup several servers by using holding disk. Without holding Disk the
backup works ok, but with holding disk, the backup hangs after an hour or two.
Is this a well
Terrible, have to reply to myself.
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:00:05AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:56:49AM +0500, Steve Simeonidis wrote:
NOTES:
planner: Dump larger than tape: full dump of localhost:/usr delayed.
taper: tape Daily01 kb 550656 fm 4 [OK
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:25:00PM -0500, Galen Johnson wrote:
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 12:35pm, Galen Johnson wrote
I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when the
incremental is restored. I can almost understand why. It seems that if
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:17:20PM -0800, Jerry wrote:
I wonder if you create a long file by that name with
touch then try to tar and untar it if it will report
an error?
--- Murf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're using amanda and GNU tar (1.13.25) to backup a
new Netapp to a Solaris 8 Sun.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Ben Simpson wrote:
amrestore doesn't use the changer, it will never use it because
it know nothing about the amanda configuration.
I don't understand this. because It will ask me the tape to put in. I can
switch to another session and type
I've
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:43:56PM -0500, Ben Simpson wrote:
I got my amrestore and amrecovers mixed up when i typed this email.
It is asking for a specific tape. When i does I just open another
session and tell the changer to find the tape.
As Jean-Louis said, even amrecover does not use
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Nicolas Cartron wrote:
I want to install Amanda on a production environment,
backup server on FreeBSD and clients running Linux, Solaris or FreeBSD.
I suspect you really mean you are considering installing amanda.
I read in the section dedicated to
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:00:52PM +1100, Joseph Sirucka wrote:
Hi
Can anyone tell me about the backup and recovery system burt.
I presume you got to the BURT home page!
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/burt/
Here are a few things I picked up, maybe you saw these too.
It is claimed
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:34:17PM -0200, Hélio Dubeux wrote:
Hi, everyone. I had installed and compilled amnada in my Linux Box. I´m
using a DAT tape to backup. But i need to backup windows sharing and i have
no idea how can i do it. I have smbclient installed too. Could enyone plz
send me
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:29:08AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote:
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:29, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:54:46AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote:
This is an i don't know, but consider this type of comment.
How would you do a recovery?
amrecover
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:35:48PM -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
--On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 16:48:50 -0500 Eric Bergeron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My company is looking for a tech. support company to solve any problems
that come up.
While this is not needed in my mind, due to this mailing
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:02:18PM +1100, Joseph Sirucka wrote:
Hi All
I have recently deleted a drive with amadmin.
That deletes the data associated with the drive IIRC.
Ho to I add that drive/machine into the backup cycle, I have not edited
the disklist, but something else is missing to
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:17:13AM +, Eric Webb wrote:
On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:32 pm, Galen Johnson wrote:
Eric Webb wrote:
On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote:
Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find
the DUMP program, despite
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:44:57PM +0100, Nicolas Cartron wrote:
All,
Thanks to everybody who helped me, especially Jon ! :)
Just a last question : as i want to use only one tape drive, am i obliged
to change the tape everyday, i.e. can't Amanda append the data on the
same tape day after
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:13:08AM +1100, Joseph Sirucka wrote:
Hi All
just got this problem as below, anyone know how to resolve this
[ snip ]
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
ERROR: olbs2.in.telstra.com.au: [access as amanda not allowed from
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:07:48PM +1100, Joseph Sirucka wrote:
Hi All
ok my problem is this I have done a amflush of a failed backup.
from there, amanda never returns the mail message to state that the
flush has finished.
Also the tape unit sits there idle and no process is found to be
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:03:49AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 at 1:09pm, Robert Karason wrote
I'm having a small problem with Amanda. When a tape is full Amanda
does not prompt (ask) for another tape, instead it displays an error.
Any solutions or ideas?
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:20:24AM -0500, Wayne Byarlay wrote:
Oops- I meant amrestore... last subject was wrong.
-Original Message-
From: Wayne Byarlay [mailto:wab;purdue.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:17 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: execute shell commands from
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:53:59PM -0200, Hélio Dubeux wrote:
Can i use Amanda without holdingdisk??? I want to backup from a share
directly do a tape device.
default is without
--
Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JG Computing
4455 Province Line Road(609)
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:44:00AM -0800, Chris Marble wrote:
Owain Pritchard wrote:
I have added a new client into the disklist and it's access password
in the amandapass file.
When I run amcheck on the new configuration, amcheck throws up
the following error appears:-
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:35:59PM -0200, Hélio Dubeux wrote:
How do i set up my disklist file do backup a windows share?
It has already been suggested that you read docs/SAMBA.
--
Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JG Computing
4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:05:54PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
... ? After thinking about it some more and realizing that all
dumps are local I've commented out the holding disk info. (Shouldn't
localhost dumps bypass the holding disk anyways?)
Only if you don't care about parallelism
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:05:01PM -0800, Yan Lam wrote:
Currently, I have Amanda doing backups with two tape drives ( both are
DLT7000 drives). I noticed that Amanda deferred many level 0 backups with
the ...[dumps too big, full dump delayed] in the log file.
The first tape is filled;
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:18:22PM +, Marius Sorteberg wrote:
Hi list,
I use Amanda2.4.3 on FreeBSD 4.7, compiled from ports.
My tapedevice is a DLT 15/30.
I recently switched to software compression, and therefore whish to disable
hardware compression. This is done with mt comp off
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:06:50PM -0500, JP wrote:
Hi,
I just install Amanda for the first time and now i want to label my
first tape.
I've put a tape in the drive and check the status. It's online and BOT i
guess is for Beginning Of Tape !?
[root@lux2 log]# mt -f /dev/st0 status
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:13:32PM +0200, Harri Haataja wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:43:43AM +0100, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
for me your amanda-report looks quite normal for the situation you're
in. Amanda wrote 11,5GB of data to the tape, then ran into eot. This
is a quite normal
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:24:18AM +, John P. Looney wrote:
Sounds intriguing. Is this a simple matter in amanda, or do you mean
backup root, except /usr in one entry in disklist, then /usr in another
entry ? Does this mean there is a max size to filesystems you can backup
in amanda?
No,
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:28:41AM -0500, Richard B. Tilley (Brad) wrote:
No one answered my first post. So here's a brief reminder.
[ snip ]
However, amrecover fails when trying to restore the large files, the error
message is below:
timeout waiting for amrestore
increase
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:48:56AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
That's not really what I'm after. I'd like to have amanda to backup as
little as possible (i.e. high level backups, few level 0's - long
dumpcycle), but I want it to stuff tapes until they are full.
Take this as a given
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:18:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jim,
I will go and have a look on the Sony website for some PDFs, with the help
of some members of the AMANDA mailling list I've managed to get it working
fine on Solaris 9. I would be very pleased if you could send me
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:48:27PM +, Niall O Broin wrote:
On Friday 22 November 2002 11:01, Paul Bijnens wrote:
If there is one flipped bit (read error), everything compressed with gzip
after that position is lost. With HW compression you can continue
restoring after that position
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:44:47AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well my drive is not a SDT-9000 but a COMPAQ TSL-9000, or are these drives
the same ?
Regards
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:18:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jim,
I will go and have a look on the Sony
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:29:38PM -0600, C. Bensend wrote:
Hey folks,
I'm just curious to know what, exactly, happens during the
estimating (is this the planner?) phase before a dump happens.
I have a small network here at home, with machines ranging
from PII-333's to a
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:08:54PM +0100, Sébastien GALLET wrote:
Thanks for your tips
But i can't compile amanda-2.4.3 with this option !!!
Which version of amanda do you use ???
- Original Message -
From: Michel Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday,
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 06:40:16PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Hi,
I recently installed 2.4.3 on FreeBSD, and I'm seeing that all the tar
archives are failing because a particular directory is not created.
The structure on the client appears to be:
toolbox[/tmp/amanda]# ls -al
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:52:29PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote:
sendsize[11554]: opening /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/host1.int_usr_local_
etc__0.new: No such file or directory
Any ideas? If I manually create the directory, it's fine
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:13:07PM +0100, Per Nothagen, Triacon AB wrote:
I run a full unattended backup each night and would want Amanda to not
check so carefully which tape I use. The tape label should match the
labelstr parameter but it should not complain if I put the wrong tape
number
Normally I would not do this, but ...
There seem to be quite a few list members who, like me,
use the HP 24x6 models of DDS3 changers. Spare magazines
are to hold tape cartridges are always useful for these
drives. HP lists (C1571A) at $32, but the last time I
was in the market they were back
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:30:34AM +0100, Martin Oehler wrote:
Hi!
After running amflush I get the following message for some days:
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
/-- loki /var lev 1 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [loki:/var level 1]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:54:41AM +0100, Ayten Krueger wrote:
Hi
I need the tapetype for SDLT220 -Quantum.
Compile the tapetype program in the tape-src directory.
Run it and tell us your results.
Or perhaps check the FAQ/tapetype list at amanda.org.
--
Jon H. LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:23:56PM -0800, Ivan Zaigralin wrote:
Dear amanda wizards;
I've just installed the amanda client on a Solaris 9 machine,
and tried to set up the backup of the partitions. However,
that just doesn't happen. The server writes in the report:
FAILURE AND STRANGE
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:23:23PM -0500, Axel Haenssen wrote:
Hi Guys,
awfully sorry to ask this again but I cant' find the solutions in the
archives anymore.
I am getting
Changing volumes on pipe input?
abort? [y/n]
when using amrestore. Running amanada on a linux cluster. What's
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:44:14PM -0800, kh teoh wrote:
Hi,
I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I
managed to backup a raw device(/dev/sda13) using DUMP
but how do I restore it ? That raw device is not
mounted to any directory, it is reserved for Informix
use.
Did you try
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:11:45AM +0530, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote:
Hai Joshua:
Since level 1 backups everything since the last backup, that is level 0,
we will get replication of files (redundancy) irrespective of whether the
files are modified or not in the subsequent backups on the rest of
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:44:46AM +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:22:10PM -0500)
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:44:14PM -0800, kh teoh wrote:
Hi,
I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I
managed to backup a raw
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:54:42AM +0100, Helas, Stephan wrote:
Christoph Scheeder wrote:
Hi
this is very strange,
i have a few servers under linux using ext3 and gnutar with amanda
doing fine level1 and 2's.
I guess you may have a process on your server touching all your files
once a
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:53:31AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am currently setting up an amanda 2.4.3 server on Solaris 9 with a Compaq
TSL-9000 DDS-3 tape changer device and was wondering which tpchanger
script I should use, will chg-scsi work or do I need to use chg-zd-mtx
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:47:55AM -0800, Jerry wrote:
I'd like to stop a mysql database for a backup runs,
and start it back up after the backup.
I was thinking of putting a wrapper around amandad,
but I am not sure if that would work because amanda
makes a connection to amanadad then runs
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:55:58PM -0500, Axel Haenssen wrote:
Hi Guys,
I am running amanda on a linux cluster. The backup reports no errors but
when I try to restore amanda tells me that the requested file is not on
the tape (It should be there since I can see it with the ls command
under
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:38:10PM -0600, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:
Okay, that was my mistake...I forgot you can't find individual files listed...just
the disks
you wanted to do su amanda -c amadmin configname find clientcomputername disk
What version of gnu-tar comes with RH7.1? Can
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:44:03AM -0600, C. Chan wrote:
Also Sprach Paul Jakma:
ooh wow. RAIT can do RAID1 aswell as RAID3 (or is it 4?)? yippee!
Yes, it can. Do a search on Marc Mengel's posts on the Amanda
list from about a month ago. Just list two tape drives using
the rait:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:09:44PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
Hi Folks,
I am trying to backup about 20 Windows (Win95/Win98/Nt6) computers using
Amanda version 2.4.2p2.
Looking at the Google listings it would seem to fail due to the holding
disk which has 26 Gigabytes of free
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:55:47AM +, Niall O Broin wrote:
On Friday 29 November 2002 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dumpcycle 7 days
runspercycle 5
tapecycle 40 (or however many tapes you have)
runtapes 2
and then you simply label your tapes (physically and with amlabel) mysite01
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:54:28PM +0100, Joachim Scharfenbaum wrote:
Hello,
I want to use SDLT220 to backup my files. Has anyone got the tapetypes for
a Quantum SDLT220?
Check the tapetype list at amanda.org.
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Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JG Computing
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:28:05AM -0600, Matthew Boeckman wrote:
Just noticed that the FAQ-O-Matic linked off of amanda.org seems to be
down: http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom?
It asks for a temporary password to install the faq-o-matic!
Best one to tell that to is the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:40:16AM -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote:
Hello,
I recently helped with a restore using Amanda's amrecover tool.
Amanda would report that files were present on the tape, but in some,
but not all cases, only empty directories were
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:23:04PM -, Kevin Passey wrote:
I've moved on a bit here is what I've done so far:-
[Administrator@dilmom Administrator]$ /usr/local/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0
dilmom KevDocs | /sbin/restore -iv -b 2 -f -
Input block size is 2
/sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:22:13PM -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote:
Hello,
I'm curious how some you have dealt with the catch-22 of backing up
Amanda's configuration files. Ideally during the restore process Amanda
is available with all it's configuration files intact. However, if the
Amanda
I just wrote in another response that a design goal of
amanda was to be able to recover the backed-up data from
the tape without amanda software being available.
Got me to thinking, has this objective been broken when
using striping in RAIT configuration?
If not, what non-amanda tools allow
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:41:39PM -0500, Jeffery Smith wrote:
Greetings everyone,
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Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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Holding disk /space/scsi1/amanda/dumps_test: 6018912 KB disk space
available,
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:51:24PM -0500, Novocon Technical Support wrote:
Is it at all possible to do incremental backups to the same tape that a full
backup is on?
I saw in the FAQs that this did not seem possible but was wondering if anyone
had a potential workaround since the FAQ was
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:19:45AM +0100, Marco Schierloh wrote:
Hi,
planning for a new backup-strategy I am investigating the possibility to use
amanda with a HP Surestore 2/20 Tape Library with one ultrium drive. Does
anyone have experience with this setup or does amanda not support this
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:23:18PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
Hi Folks,
[ rearranged ]
In testing I did try to backup a directory, I though that after compression
it would fit on the tape. Unfortunately due to the TIFF files the
directory did not compress as well as expected. So
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